Teaching and Learning English Literature

This is the first in the series Teaching and Learning the Humanities in Higher Education. Teaching and Learning English Literature is for beginning and experienced teachers of literature in higher education. The authors present a comprehensive overview of teaching English Literature, from setting teaching goals and syllabus planning through to a range of student assessment strategies and methods of course or teacher evaluation and improvement. Particular attention is paid to different teaching methods, from the traditional classroom to newer collaborative work, distance education and uses of electronic technologies. All this is set in the context of presentday circumstances and agendas to help academics and those in training become more informed and better teachers of their subject. Teaching and Learning English Literature includes: How Literature as a discipline is currently understood and constituted; what it means to study and learn the subject; what ‘good teaching’ is, with fewer resources for teaching, larger student numbers, an emphasis on ‘user-pay’ principles and vocationalism. The Teaching & Learning in the Humanities series, edited by Ellie Chambers and Jan Parker, is for